Captain Venture and the Land Beneath the Sea 1968 #2 - reader copy - $3.00

Facts about eclipses.

Rex and Scotty are forced to land their tiny space module on a volcano when it overheats. While exploring they fall into a bottomless pit but are saved when a side draft pulls them into a hole in the wall of the volcano and they land on giant mushrooms. They rescue a humanoid named Hera from strange creatures and she takes them home to meet her father Lucan, a scientist. Rex is leery of Hera for good reason as Lucan attempts to drug them so that he can experiment on them.

Facts about dolphins.

A dinosuar bites his own tail by mistake.

A man gets all dressed up for rain but finds the sun shining when he goes outside.

"Facts" about humans who lived in the marshes after the last ice age.

Various examples of the different ways the word "post" is used.

Facts about the sun and sunspots.

Gold Key cover code: 10225-910. On-sale date from 1969 Books and Pamphlets, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• - Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
• Astronomy: Eclipses - Inside front cover
• Fall Far... Fall Deep - Pages 1-14 and 19-30. This story is reported as a reprint at various websites but I believe it to be an original story as it doesn't reprint any of the strips from Space Family Robinson.
• Porpoise - Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
• - Jokes.
• Post - Art identification by Alberto Becattini (December 2010).
• - Four different cartoons.
• Captain Venture Pin-Up - Reprint of the cover without logo or lettering.